Letters to the Editor
The issues you raise in “Grow Up, Portland” [WW,
June 10, 2015] are important ones for the city. But the article
conflates a number of separate issues, and thereby perpetuates common
misco
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Murmurs
It’s
a nightmare scenario for a principal: learning after the fact your
school has hosted a registered sex offender. But that’s what happened to
Jefferson High School principal Margaret Calv
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Letters to the Editor
One dumb decision may put five local taxi
companies out of business and 1,000 people out of work. For what? So
Mayor Charlie Hales can sit at the Big Boy table? [“An Immigrant’s Fare
Fight
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Murmurs
A Florida software company says the state’s marijuana overlords improperly awarded a $1.7 million contract to follow the flow of legal pot from farm to bong. The company, BioTrackTHC, wants to provi
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Letters to the Editor
Your headline reads “…Here’s Why He Did It.” When I read that, I hoped Michael Rodgers had contacted WW
for exactly the same reason I would have, and I hope most Oregonians
would have, and
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Murmurs
Portland Fire & Rescue Chief Erin Janssens
is trying to put out a blaze in her own office. The city Bureau of
Human Resources last month completed an investigation into an allegation
that Ja
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Letters to the Editor
How disappointing that Willamette Week has taken the predictable path of trying to tear down an elected leader—in this case, Steve Novick [“The Portland Thorn,” WW, May 20, 2015].
But
un
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Murmurs
State lawmakers are considering ways to let people expunge past marijuana convictions from their criminal records. WW first reported in February that Rep. Lew Frederick (D-Portland)
had introduced a
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Letters to the Editor
Create legal campsites with sanitary
facilities—toilets, showers, sinks. There’s a cost to doing that, but
the city has a “surplus,” doesn’t it? [“Decamped,” WW, May 13, 2015.]
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Murmurs
Elephant rights activists are getting under the not-so-thick hides of Oregon Zoo officials. Last summer, regional government Metro, which runs the zoo, quoted The Northwest Examiner
an $18,000 bill
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